On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:52 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 06 August 2010 21:44:15 Arun Khan wrote: >> >> Have you aliased traceroute to tracert? just curious. >> > > it's done by default, tracert = traceroute -I
Not on my systems -- Ubuntu 10.04 (server), Debian Squeeze (server) and openSUSE 11.2 (desktop and server). > >> What I don't understand is -- why/where do the respective host OS >> "resolver" translate a non-existent domain name into an IP number >> 208.76.179.25? > > My guess is he's got a dns server on a hosed doze box on his network. > I agree, it could be acting as the "man in the middle". I know it sounds weird but I have seen b0rked systems do strange things. OP can you shutdown the Win2K3 server (your MS domain controller), boot a desktop with a LiveCD and tell us your results of the experiment? -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

